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Twelve students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management joined by an alumnus and a faculty member attended the recent Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition in Manhattan, Kan. Horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower Jr.

Jeremy L. Thorne, a landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis major from Sugarloaf, has been chosen as Pennsylvania College of Technology's final "Student of the Month" for the Spring 2012 semester.

Thirty-seven Penn College employees and students were added to the roster of Awesome Women Exemplars during the seventh annual recognition reception in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room. They join nearly 200 other campus luminaries on the list, which is expanded each year in conjunction with Women's History Month. Kimberly R.

Volunteers from the dental profession convened in the Dental Hygiene Lab at Pennsylvania College of Technology on March 17 for the 10th Sealant Saturday community dental health event, for which they provided about $15,000 in free dental services to children between the ages of 7 and 15.

Employers recruiting from the varied Penn College majors that provide the manufacturing sector with a well-prepared workforce – from welding to plastics to electronics, just for starters – were duly impressed with the caliber of students they encountered at this month's campus Career Fair.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Residence Life Office announces its March honorees among students and programs in campus housing: RA of the Month Troy C. Weimer, a computer aided product design major from Cleona, was selected as Resident Assistant of the Month.

The Bison Battalion (the Bucknell University-based ROTC program comprising Bucknell, Bloomsburg and Susquehanna universities, Penn College and Lycoming College) recently completed a two-day field training exercise, the purpose of which was to prepare cadets for their careers as Army officers.

About 25 students in forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher's Wildlife Management class got hands-on exposure to birds of prey, as Master Falconer Cheri Heimbach returned to the School of Natural Resources Management this week. One of about 150 falconers in Pennsylvania, Heimbach brought along a Barbary Falcon, a Red-tailed Hawk, an Eagle Owl and a Harris's Hawk.

Eleven Penn College students and their adviser recently traveled to Perryville, Ark., for an Alternative Spring Break with a nonprofit agency dedicated to ending hunger and poverty. The group worked with Heifer International, which provides livestock, trees, seeds and environmentally sound agricultural training to families in more than 50 countries, including the United States.

Senior Kyle S. Baker and junior David S. Price traveled to Wohlsen Construction in Lancaster on Tuesday as part of a continuing outreach effort on behalf of their four-year construction management major. After a project manager explained what construction management is, the Penn College students joined by building construction management instructor Brad M.